Carpet cleaning in Kensington
Most of our work in Kensington is carpet cleaning. We also cover the other jobs listed below.
- If it is not clean when we leave, we come back
- Our own machines and materials, so there is nothing for you to supply
- Priced per room, agreed before we start
- Evenings and weekends at no extra charge
Rather talk? Ring 020 3129 2862, seven days.
What we get called out for
Rooms and hallways
Hot water extraction, walk-on dry in a couple of hours. Traffic lanes are the usual reason we are rung.
Stairs and landings
The hardest-worked carpet in the house, done tread by tread with a hand tool.
Rugs
Cleaned flat on a groundsheet, dyes tested first. Delicate fibres get a low-moisture clean.
Sofas and chairs
Upholstery tool at lower pressure, fabric code checked before anything gets wet.
Prices
Priced per room, agreed on the phone and not changed on the doorstep. A bedroom is £36, a living room £43. Rugs, sofas and mattresses can join the same visit, because the machine is already in the house.
| Service | Price |
|---|---|
| Bedroom | £36 |
| Living room | £43 |
| Through lounge | £61 |
| Stairs, per flight | £41 |
| Rug up to 2m² | £35 |
| Rug over 2m² | £51 |
| Service | Price |
|---|---|
| Two-seater sofa | £57 |
| Armchair | £33 |
| Mattress | £35 |
| Dining chair | £13 |
| Curtains, short drop | £35 |
| Curtains, long drop | £42 |
The minimum charge on one off work is £67, so a single bedroom carpet on its own is priced at the minimum. Two rooms and a flight of stairs is the commonest booking we take, at £120.
Working in Kensington
Kensington is white-stucco terrace, red-brick mansion block and garden square. The grand stucco townhouses of Phillimore Gardens, Campden Hill Road and Stafford Terrace run to five or six storeys with wide staircases and high ceilings, and most are now split into flats. Period mansion blocks such as Kensington Court, Iverna Gardens, Cornwall Gardens and Lexham Gardens supply much of the flat stock. Dug-out basements with underfloor heating have been added to a large share of the whole houses, and this is one of the most densely populated local authority districts in the UK as a result of subdivision.
RBKC issues no visitor permits at all. Visitors pay through PayByPhone during controlled hours, generally 8.30am to 6.30pm Monday to Friday plus Saturday morning or all-day depending on the street, so van parking is a genuine line item on a W8 quote.
Mansion block lifts in Kensington Court, Iverna Gardens and Cornwall Gardens are original and carry strict size and weight limits. A full-size extraction machine will not fit, so portable units and long hose runs from the street door are the working method.
Many W8 houses now have dug-out basements with underfloor heating beneath carpet or engineered wood, which shortens the acceptable moisture window and rules out heavy wetting.
The water here is hard, which makes no difference to the extraction rinse. What slows drying in these houses is closed trickle vents, so we open windows while we work.
Areas we cover
We work across Kensington and the streets around it. These are the areas we get to most.
Notting Hill
W11. North across Notting Hill Gate; stucco terraces arranged around private communal garden squares.
Holland Park
W11. West of Kensington High Street, with the park itself and the large villas of the Ilchester estate.
Earl's Court
SW5. South; the most heavily converted Victorian terraces in the borough and a dense short-let market.
South Kensington
SW7. South-east, the museum quarter around the V&A, Natural History Museum and Imperial College.
Chelsea
SW3. South-east across Brompton Road, the other half of the royal borough.
Bayswater
W2. North across Kensington Gardens, in the City of Westminster.